Chie

Credit:
Photographer, Make-up, and Styling: Amelia Aventine
Clothes: Vivat Veritas, available here.

Hi all! Late night post today. We had a black-out in my area today, which limited my pc use because my 15  inch screen laptap battery only lasts about an hour without charging. I want to write more, but will have to keep it short so I can get some sleep!

Here are the mood shot of the “Secret Garden” collection I posted yesterday. What do you think? Which picture do you like the best?

I really really love how every single picture came out! It was hard to pick the ones I posted here. When I have time, I will post more pictures on my Flickr page.

Back in February, Amelia contacted me to do a photo shoot with a theme of “Secret Garden”. When I saw her website, I was immediately in love with her work. I have a short interview post of Amelia coming up soon so you can get to know her better. After we agreed upon the theme, I started making clothes. As I said before, I did not make any new patterns for this range, just used some old ones and fabrics I can find from my stash. So most of these dresses will be one-of-a-kind or few-of-a-kind. As much as I love working on bridesmaid dresses, I really enjoy making one-of-a-kind pieces. I take random fabric from my stash and see what it takes me. I also found out that I work better with some concept  or theme in mind, instead of random “Spring” or “Fall” collection. Amelia was super fun to work with, and so was Yurie. I think she looks gorgeous in these photos, and even more so in person!

Anyway, it’s almost midnight here. Gotta get some sleep to tomorrow. xoxo

Hi everyone! Thank you so much for your concerns, prayers and encouraging words on my last post about earthquake. We are still experiencing some aftershocks, possible power shortage etc, but all my family and I are safe and okay.

I wanted to post something quick, and something a bit cheerful in this hard times. I talked about working on a photo shoot with a theme “Secret Garden” a couple of weeks ago, and I think I can show you the lookbook pictures soon (possibly tomorrow!). But before that, here are the dresses on dress form I made for the shoot. I used some old patterns here and there, as you can see from the cut out back dress and sweet heart cut out dress. I am in love with the fabrics I used, especially the Eiffel tower one (last pic)! Don’t you think it’s so adorable? I found the fabric in Nippori, and I really had to take it home. Anyway, I’ll talk more about the inspiration and the shoot itself tomorrow.